Firebase (Fall of Man, Book 3) by Sam Sisavath

Author:Sam Sisavath
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Road To Babylon Media LLC
Published: 2020-10-09T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14. EMILY

“You think it’s true?”

“Yes.”

“Is that even possible?”

“Yes.”

“You answered those two pretty fast.”

“After everything we’ve seen and been through, you still have doubts?”

Greg shook his head. Emily could see him struggling for the right words. Or maybe he already knew what those were but just didn’t want to say them because speaking them out loud would be akin to accepting them. Denial, after all, wasn’t just a river in Egypt.

As for Emily, she didn’t have the luxury to even entertain those thoughts. She had to deal with the facts at hand. That was what she was good at.

“I don’t know,” the big man said. “It’s just that…” He paused for a bit. Then, “How many did you say was in a division?”

“Ten thousand and up.”

“Jesus. Ten thousand men. Gone, just like that.”

“That’s not entirely true.”

“No?”

“That ten thousand men up and vanished. I’m guessing a good portion of them are still out there looking for someone to kill.” She glanced out the window at Stoner, talking to the ex-soldier that had been fiddling with the elevator since he arrived. “The rest of them are in here with us.”

Greg didn’t say anything for a while. The former contractor stood next to her, hands in his pockets as if he didn’t know what to do with them. She could practically hear the gears inside his head turning, trying to process everything he’d just heard, and coming up…lacking.

“Ten thousand men,” he finally said.

“If this thing is affecting everyone whose blood type isn’t O negative, that’s a good 93 percent of the population. 93 percent is…a lot to fight.”

“So how do you think Stoner and his guys made it?”

Emily looked from Stoner to the two men watching the gaping holes around the semi at the front of the warehouse. They stood calmly, weapons at the ready, leaving just enough distance between them and the ways in to pick off anyone or anything that tried to come through. The only other entrance—the side door that Stoner’s men had assaulted earlier—had been re-barricaded. Luckily, they hadn’t destroyed it when they made their dramatic entry but had just knocked the deadbolt out of place.

Her gaze fell on their guard standing nearby. He was younger than the rest by far—early twenties, with the same buzz cut as the others—and didn’t seem to have moved very much since she first saw him. But it wasn’t his youth that she focused on; it was the rifle he was cradling while he ate from a bag of MRE using a titanium spork that was part of a multi-tool set.

“Emily?” Greg said when she didn’t say anything.

“The crazies don’t use guns,” she said. “Stoner and his guys did. That’s how they made it.”

“I forgot about that. You think it’s true what Cole said? About why they don’t use guns?”

“I don’t know, but it’s a good theory. Then again, that’s all any of us has, right? Just theories?”

“I guess. But you’re way better at this than I am.”

“What is ‘this?’”

“Solving problems.”

“I guess I should be; I used to do it for a living.

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